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Wikidata weekly summary #734
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week leading up to 2026-06-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #733.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 13 - Task/s:
- Per Project Chat, replace "estauxunidense" in Asturian descriptions with "d'Estaos Xuníos". Example manual edits here and here.
- Also adds a default label, per d:Help:Default values for labels and aliases#When should I use default values for labels and aliases? and remove redundant labels in the simplest cases.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Temporaer Haus: OpenDataMonday, today, 1 June, 19:30 - 22:00 CEST, Augsburger Str. 23-25, 89231 Neu-Ulm.
- WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2026: “Wikidata in Kulturerbeinstitutionen”, 11-12th June, Wikimedia Deutschland. German-speaking event for people working with Wikidata in the cultural heritage sector. Open to experienced contributors and newcomers alike.
- Making Wikimedia and Linked Open Data Mainstream in GLAMs – The National Library of Wales Journey, 11 June 17:00 - 18:00 CEST, online (English with German translation) – Keynote by Jason Evans.
- (Deutsch) Workshop // Wikibases, Knowledge Graphs und Wikidata, Tue 14 July, 10:00 - 13:00 CEST. Participation is for project members, Zentral Institut staff, and interested guests, on-site at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. See link for registration details.
- Doing Migration History with Digital Methods: Beyond a Database - Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography Summer University at the German Historical Institute Paris, 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, 23 June 16:00 CEST.
- WikiProjects Days 2026 - preparing the Program - watch this space next week for the first edition of the Event Program or register to be notified of updates.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Behind the QIDs by User:Niryhpr
- Improving the interconnection between Wikidata and the CERL Thesaurus by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, also presented (in Italian) in Videos.
- Digitally mapping the Philippines’ historical markers by Eugene Alvin Villar.
- Papers:
- A data-driven analysis of automotive model evolution and technological lineage using Wikidata and Python network visualization by P. Trunova (2026).
- (Italiano) De Catulo a Wikidata by Nusch et al. (2026).
- Videos:
- Adding lifting stones to Wikidata - OSM for History Buffs
- (O'zbekcha) Participate in the Interlingual Relations Marathon and win! - Oʻzbekcha Vikipediyadagi (ukwiki) has over 12,000 articles missing a sitelink...time to change that.
- (Italiano) Wikidata and Library Catalogs: Building and Enabling a Digital Resources Network by Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo
- Presentations:
- De Wikidata à Wikipédia abstraite : promesses et illusions du savoir structuré (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia: Promises and Illusions of Structured Knowledge), Presentation by Jsamwrites, May 26, 2026, Wikicafé May Edition, organized by DMontagne en résidence. (video)
- DARIAH-EU WG DHwiki - A first year of activity by D. Lindemann and G. Candela (2026).
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Recent Changes API: This API lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- On 31 May, item Q140000000 ("Maxx", about a cinema in Delmenhorst, Germany) was created.
- Feedback wanted: To support improving Wikidata integration on the Programs & Events Dashboard, the EduWiki Hub invites Wikidata organizers, trainers, and contributors to share suggestions on metrics, tracking features, and workflows you would like to see in the dashboard. In addition, try out the new Advanced Search share your thoughts on the Dashboard talk page. (full announcement)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- found liable for (tort or civil wrong a person or organization was found liable of)
- PCBS Locality code (Locality Code of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
- Newest External identifiers: AV CHANNEL actress ID, AWA artist ID, CUE/Anexo, Defense Technical Information Center Accession Number, Catholic Encyclopedia Wikitólica ID, European System of Accounts ID (Germany), OpenEdition Publisher ID, Mineral Resources Data System deposit ID, Natalie ID, Oireachtas bill ID, Rakuten Music artist ID, recochoku artist ID, Adult Film Database film series ID, Adult Film Database studio ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- category's topic is member of the class (qualifier for use with {{p|14387}} and {{P|4224}} to describe certain sets of categories)
- applicable Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: School ID of the Department of Education, Philippines, Beeld en Geluid series identifier, DAM artist ID, DAM song ID, Joysound artist ID, Joysound song ID, K-MIB performer ID, DUGA actress ID, Chilean Museums Registry ID, Sokmil actress ID, Filmmakers Person ID, Model Mayhem ID, OCHA Place Code, Sri Lanka NGO Secretariat Registration Number, Sri Lanka Company Registration Number, AV CHANNEL director ID, DUGA director ID, AllMyLinks ID, AV CHANNEL maker ID, thegamerdex.com game ID, MyDirtyHobby ID, Fontaines de Belgique ID, Wikiparfum fragrance ID, Canadian Trademark Registration Number, DMM director ID, Pantheon.World ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
- Newest WikiProjects: Project Sri Lanka for editors who would like to focus on adding materials for Sri Lanka (Q854).
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project Govdirectory added Cape Verde subpage
- Project P244 maintenance progress - a manually-updated progress tracker, is there a way to automate it?
- Newest database reports: Identified duplicates - this list shows items that most likely need merging but cannot due to conflicting sitelinks.
- Showcase Items: Q140000000: Wikidata's 140 Millionth Item
Development
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We fixed how we handle statements with deleted Properties (phab:T402619)
- We improved the behaviour when using the browser's back button (phab:T414454)
- We continued working on improving the way error responses are shown (phab:T423613)
- We addressed issues found in testing
- Improving the visibility of WikiProjects: We added support for finding the associated WikiProject of an Item based on statements on the Item
- GraphQL:
- We are working on expanding the data available through search. Specifically we are including all Item data in search result nodes (phab:T427389) and extending the query by Item and Property value to return all Item data (phab:T416885)
- We are improving the documentation.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Nigeria
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This Month in Education: May 2026
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Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026
- Teaching innovation with Wikimedia. Shared experiences in Spanish Universities
- Editing Wikipedia with Viktor Hygo High School in Albania
- Debating free license in Brazil
- Microclimatic Explainers: A short-form media approach to build micro-level environmental awareness in India
- Ukraine publishes the first academic collection of papers on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects
- Wiki Digital Youth Club Launches in Tanzania: Youth Build Digital Skills Through Competitive Quest Challenges
- Wiki Youth Participation in Building Rwanda’s Open Knowledge Ecosystem
- Wikimedia Digi-Youth Club in Nigeria
- Wikimedia MKD's Education News & Activities
- Wikipedia Serbia's interns and Wiki Ambassadors provide crucial support towards end of the school year